Aye. When/if the time is right, it'll (at least as it looks at the moment) either be cmost or myself that takes up the task (although this could change at any time if someone else decides to try *AND* understands the MONUMENTAL amount of work required to produce it to MINT quality, in which case I'd be glad to help them). There is still some discussion, but the manpower simply doesn't exist yet. It may exist next month. It may *never* exist. In a nutshell, it's not as easy as simply taking Etch, recompiling gtk, libc, and getting Minttools to run from it. Actually, making the distro .iso is probably going to be the *easy* part, if that means anything to you. It would be the ongoing maintainance, and a team that could certify a bi-weekly certified MintUpdate-Safe level 3 or safer update from Testing that would be the ongoing difficult part. Especially after the Lenny release as Stable, Testing is going to be a mess. Debian Mint, and an *ongoing* project simply *can't* run as a 1 or 2 (or 3) person show. Not at *Mint*-worthy quality

For *alot* more info, read the thread 2 below this one, where there is some ongoing discussion about what would be needed, including a near-start in which I just couldn't find enough willing hackers to help

Mint Debian CE has itself giving a break i suppose because the alpha release (very cool) wasonly a demonstration of what Mint could be for the future if Ubuntu went in anotherdirection or disappear. We were told about thatDebian testing repositories

The post by sundayrefugee said ( after the Lenny release as Stable, Testing is going to be a mess)Yes i think so

Now i would talk about the release of DreamLinux 3.1What would it be for the next version?Dreamlinux sources.list is based on Lenny Testing and repositories of their own

Well, the distro's origin (roots) from Brazil) where i live and the developers aregoing to disable Brazilian forum as i heard about - no success here. Nobody posts there anymoreIt's a nice distro but i do not enjoy MacOSX style (sold my limited semi-old MACBook)Tiger was an Apple release with only updates after updates no interest in Leopard Going to a newcomputer PC. XFCE as WM default since previous versions, now they added Gnome 2.20Gnome+Xfce - I got an impression they had thought about the success of Ubuntu and Mintand change horizons. Sincerely i didn't enjoy DreamLinux. I've wathced this version runningthe Live Cd although the developers are very talented. Just an impression, not an affirmation.

In short, Mint Debian CE, i think the guys engaged on its development (if there are some)might think seriously enough if it is viable for Mint's